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Childhood Memories Ruined by the Internet? 299

Posted by michael from the slash-fiction dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Remember that favorite cartoon you used to get up early every saturday morning to watch? Then remember how that part of your childhood died when you stumbled on that dirty piece of fanart based on it? Codehappy has launched a new site for you. Broken Memories is a website devoted to all the childhoods destroyed by internet fandom. Take a look at some of their discoveries, some of these things are just plain wrong."
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  • Superfriends, anyone? (Score:4, Funny)

    by nastro ( 32421 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:33PM (#5869128)
    Man, I can't look at Batman and Robin and NOT think of the Ambiguously Gay Duo anymore. I miss the days when I was younger and had no awareness of these soul-crushing truths.
    • Whatever hapened to yesterdayland.com? It was a site where you could see what shows were popular during your decade, what cartoons were on, what toys were cool, etc. Did they close up shop?
    • It seems to me like you're lamenting growing up. What does the Ambiguously Gay Duo have to do with it? Any adult should be able to see the homosexual relationship between Batman and Robin without any assistance. The Ambiguously Gay Duo just makes it hilarious.
      • Any adult should be able to see the homosexual relationship between Batman and Robin without any assistance.

        Hey, just because you love living in a homophobic world doesn't mean that the rest of us do.

    • During my early teens, I used to really enjoy the superfriends. Especially the last couple of seasons, I thought the stories were really good, I even considered those shows to be good sci-fi.

      I recently got to see avi's of some of the episodes. I was shocked to see that all these 'great' stories couldn't stand the test of time. Hell, they couldn't make it past 1985 IMHO.

      I thought it would have been nostalgic and fun to relive that show. Instead it was a dissapointing experience.

      When this site gets un-slas
    • Actually, if you're a fan of that show (and who isn't?) Adam West has a web site [adamwest.com] with some interesting commentary on the show.

    • The SNL skit did it for me (Score:5, Funny)

      by Syncdata ( 596941 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @03:19PM (#5869947) Journal
      I miss the days when I was younger and had no awareness of these soul-crushing truths.
      The sketch that did it for me was the SNL bit where James Bond finds out he's got every STD known to man, and hundreds of new ones, hereafter classified as Jamesbond001, JamesBond002, etc.
      He's calling all the people he's ever slept with, and at one point, he calls up stately Wayne Manor.
      "Hello, is Batman in? Excellent, could you put him on? No, no, stay on the line Robin, this concerns you too."
    • Maybe it's just me, but when I realized that Batman and Robin were lovers, I didn't lose a myth so much as gain some role models.

  • Wrong. (Score:5, Funny)

    by black mariah ( 654971 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:33PM (#5869133)
    Just... wrong. I remember when I was little, running around the house with my Thundercats sword. Unfortunately, I also remember the first time I stumbled across some fan "art" of one of them giving Mumra a blowjob.

    I'm going to go curl up in the corner in a fetal position and cry.

    • Uhm. (Score:4, Interesting)

      by TheSHAD0W ( 258774 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @01:23PM (#5869390) Homepage
      I dunno, maybe I was old enough when I first ran across this sort of stuff that it couldn't shock me so hard. But I don't see what a big deal it is.

      If you were hit that badly by seeing fan-art, I wonder how you'd react to hearing actual audio outtakes [claws-and-paws.com] from the Thundercats show. The fact is, while the cartoon itself may be pure, the people behind it are only human.

      Maybe the fact that I grew up watching Warner Bros cartoons, which threw in all sorts of hidden adult humor [sundayfunniesllc.com], helped cushion me from this sort of shock. I dunno.

  • Err... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Eudial ( 590661 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:33PM (#5869134)
    All my childhood memories are circulating around the computers in my life. ... when i got my C64... the first time i fired a CPU... my first Intel 286 reference book...

    • Re:Err... (Score:2, Funny)

      by dvk ( 118711 )
      You ***FIRED*** a CPU? You were an underaged employer? Did you pay taxes on that CPU's salary?

      *duck*

    • Re:Err... (Score:3, Funny)

      by identity0 ( 77976 )
      Yeah, me too... and I was shocked and scarred when I first came upon fan-fiction lesbian x86-on-Alpha action... and I needed therapy after I found "VAX does Vermont". The horror, the horror...

  • broken memories :( (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:35PM (#5869145)
    yeah like, i remember my childhood..
    it was a internet filled with nice people.
    You were lucky to get an email an hour, news sites weren't filled with dupes, and first-post trolls were unheard of.

    /me cries
    the world has changed :(

    -r

    • Re:broken memories :( (Score:5, Funny)

      by sandbagger ( 654585 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:41PM (#5869181)
      Now that Carrie Fisher looks like one of my math teachers, my childhood memories of her in that aluminum bikini are ruined. Well, there's always Veronica Hamel from Hill Street Blues.
    • Yeah, and sites like this didn't exist because newsgroups weren't ruined by spamming and cross-posted porn.

      In fact, when the first slashdot-like sites did spring up, I remember not liking them because conferencing belongs (that should be 'belonged', I suppose... sigh) on usenet.

  • broken memories (Score:5, Funny)

    by pizza_milkshake ( 580452 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:36PM (#5869153)
    well, now i know where to look for all my smurf hentai
  • The site is fairly sparse. I bet a google search would turn up many more hits than anything on this site.

  • Ruined by maturity, not mature content . . . (Score:5, Insightful)

    by SimplyCosmic ( 15296 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:39PM (#5869163) Homepage


    Most of my "childhood memories" were ruined simply by me growing up and seeing those cartoons again on cable re-runs.

    The crass corporate sponsored half-hour toy commercials that were the cartoons of my youth look completely different in my eyes today.
    • I can definitely relate to this. It was a dark day when I saw the Snorks again about a year ago.

      Perhaps the world's desire for bad movies is programmed at an early age.
    • When I read the headline, I thought the site was about growing up and seeing your favorite tv shows again.

      But to tell you the truth, I think the site as it is now is more interesting. It is amazing what some people consider erotic. And I am not judging. I am not in a position to judge others for their sexual behavior.
    • A friend of mine , Will Iverson, has coined a term for this very thing. When something that once held your fascination now seems hokey, it has been "Krulled". Yesssss.... He loved the movie Krull as a boy, but cought it on cable a few years back. Needlesds to say, he saw how much the it actually sucked. I don't even think he finished watching it.
      • Sadly, I know of people in their 20's who still insist that Krull is a good movie. May Jebus have mercy on their souls...

      • funny; i call that "the voltron effect". i know far too many people who were voltron fans in their youth, only to have their pleasant memories of giant humanoid robots formed from smaller robotic lions shattered by actually seeing it again.

        i wish i could see "jayce and the wheeled warriors" again, just to determine if that show also induces the voltron effect. unfortunately, i've only met a hand full of people that even remember it.

    • Depends how old you are. The cartoons I watched as a child were originally created as theater shorts - Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, etc - before Hollywood cynics learned to cash the images in on the side of burger glasses. The first real shift from genuine attempt to entertain to crass commercialism began in the sixties. Today it infects every aspect of the entertainment industries. Think Lucas.

      What no one's mentioned so far is how a company's actions off the screen ruined feelings towards their cartoons. I w

    • On the contrary, I enjoy watching Star Blazers as much as when I was a kid.

      I guess some people never grow up.
    • Ever watch an episode of the A-Team recently? Murdoch can hide in an oil barrel in the middle of a firefight with machine guns and come out unscathed.

      -prator

  • Censoring 'toons (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Enry ( 630 ) <enry@@@wayga...net> on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:39PM (#5869164) Journal
    Sorry, my childhood died when I watched Bugs Bunny years later and noticed that explosions, gun shots, and a bunch of other bits that were funny had been taken out. Not many things funnier than Wile E. Coyote or Elmer Fudd burnt to a crisp with their hair blown back after the TNT went off too soon.

    • Re:Censoring 'toons (Score:5, Funny)

      by Angry Toad ( 314562 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:42PM (#5869189)
      I caught one of these hacked-up Bugs Bunny cartoons a while back. I mean, one minute Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck are talking to one another, and suddenly (and with no explanation) Daff's beak is on upside down and backwards and he's screaming and trailing smoke all over the place.

      Now personally I think that's WAY more disturbing than the original cartoon.

    • Re:Censoring 'toons (Score:4, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:50PM (#5869226)
      The censorship of cartoons is so damn wrong. What would people say if the librarian or the
      gallery curator started cutting out the parts of their collections of which they didn't approve.
      It used to be only the parochial philistine who pasted fig leaves on statues.

    • Re:Censoring 'toons (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Eskarel ( 565631 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @02:04PM (#5869602)
      Well there are of couse exceptions to the rule of censoring toons being a bad thing. There were a few made during the Second World War which were just horrible.

      I personally will never get the image of bugs bunny in black face hawking war bonds. "Any bonds today, gonna buy your share of freedom?" Explosions may be one thing but watching your childhood memories as government sponsored bigots is almost as bad as that "fan art".

      Haven't seen the infamous one where bugs is shooting the Japanese, there are probably only about a dozen copies of that one left in the world, but it's supposedly considerably worse.

      • Re:Censoring 'toons (Score:3, Insightful)

        by gl4ss ( 559668 )
        they still shouldnt be censored out totally out, and pretend they never existed. if you never see any propaganda you might not be able to see through it when you stumbled upon it. you can watch posters without accepting the ideas too, they give insight to the feel of the times.
        besides than that, censoring them partially is even worse, it's denying what the world was like when it was created.

        the donald duck ww2 clip was quite good imho too.

        'great is the man who can consider an idea without first accepting
      • You can get most of them on p2p. Just search for "banned cartoon". Bit of an eye opener, especially the early Disney ones that were highly offensive to just about every culture on the planet.

    • Re:Censoring 'toons (Score:2, Interesting)

      by NamShubCMX ( 595740 )
      Last night I caught an episode of the simpsons where they removed the itchy and scratchy part...

      I was pissed.

      • Re:Censoring 'toons (Score:5, Interesting)

        by lewp ( 95638 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @03:39PM (#5870031) Journal
        The Simpsons tends to get neutered in syndication so they can fit more commercials in. What you saw probably has nothing to do with the content being offensive.

        Sadly, they remove some really funny parts from the episodes. Or, they remove something from a scene that doesn't appear to be important, but makes a certain joke "work" better if it's there.

        Ugh, I love that show too much.
  • I like this [rogers.com] better than any Pooh book or cartoon ever! Had to wait until I was well over 30 before it discovered me too :(

  • The DFC (when it was around) definitely warped some of my own childhood memories. The fact that they used the original cartoons and user-created captions made it all the more disturbing. But I don't remember laughing harder than I did whenever I read them. Somehow I think the parody generated even more interest in Bil Keane's daily strip.

    What they did to Calvin and Hobbes was just wrong. That and Garfield were the two I grew up with, and I deign to see what the latter looks like. Besides, Suzie did

  • Why haven't their parents or school installed porn filters? Why haven't they been limited access till they're old enough? My parents wouldn't let me watch certain TV when I was young, I dont see how this is any different. And no, I couldnt just go to a friends to watch stuff, their parents were the same way. Everyone looked out for their kids and what they could watch and read. No, not all can be stopped, but it starts with the parents because they're the ones who decided to bring you into this world, they
    • For every filter created there are two ways to circumvent them.
    • Well, they could first stop here [peacefire.org]. That was a favorite of mine for breaking web filters. I also had an app that would record keystrokes, and then just make up some excuse for them having to use the master account. Once I had their password, I could adjust the levels. Now, I didn't do this to find porn, I did it because the filters prevented you from using the net connection for anything but its pre-approved list, which excluded mozilla, and my secret collection of uber-violent games, but that's a different s

    • "Why haven't their parents or school installed porn filters?"

      Because they are useless. Even at their best, they don't block enough, and at their worst they overblock. I don't advocate children looking at porn, but it's all my wife and I can do to try and raise our kids in a manner consistent with our values. If that value system hasn't become an ingrained part of their own mindset by the time they are old enough to perhaps want to be looking at porn, then porn filters certainly aren't going to stop

  • What Saturday TV? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Malc ( 1751 )
    I wasn't allowed to watch TV on a Saturday morning. Nor did we have a computer. Instead, I was told to read a book or go outside and play. Strange concept, hey?
    • Yeah, it was strange. Most of us watched tv till noon. THEN we went out and played, or read books. When you are a kid, you have after school and weekends to play. When you grow up, you hardly have it anymore.

      *sigh*

      Just made me depress myself.

  • Not Appropriate for Slashdot... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Diamondback ( 111383 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:48PM (#5869215)
    This sort of thing is for SomethingAwful, not SlashDot. this is a news site for geeks, not a site for people to point at something and go, "ew, gross!"

    Grow up, anyway. If it can be corrupted by a sexual image, it has, probably a while ago. It's an irrevocable part of life, and not really something that deserves to be made fun of on a site devoted to geeky tech news.
    • Ah, so geeks aren't allowed to laugh at stuff, or wax nostalgia.

      Nice try Shrek, now get back under the bridge and harass some goats. :)
      • At the risk of seeming pedantic (with an opening like that, how can I be anything else?) I should point out that Shrek is an ogre, not a troll.

        I know this, because my 3 year old daughter is watching it at the moment, a welcome relief from Toy Story 2, which she has already watched three times today. She normally manages to limit herself to Shrek only once or twice a day.

        No doubt some warped geek will come up with some "fan" "art" based on these two as well. In fact, I fully expect some warped geek to
    • I threw the idea of "appropriate for slashdot" out the window the very first time that I accidentally clicked on the goatsecx link (or whatever that god-awful thing was). And with half the people here seeming to be sex deprived, links to soft porn from actual stories might be construed to be a public service! Lets just give something like this story it's own section so I can filter it out of my standard preferences -my 8 yr old daughter can read now!

  • It's a porn site in disguise (Score:4, Insightful)

    by SageMadHatter ( 546701 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:51PM (#5869233)
    Sounds to me like this site is more useful serving as a central point on the web as a listing of links to pornographic cartoons.

    Mad Hatter

  • It gets old real fast (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I posted on this site, but not for long. It's boring. Come on, you can only see pop culture figures turned into wank fodder about a dozen times before it gets dull. All porn in pretty much the same. Seeing one cartoon character take it up the pooper is about the same as any other character doing the same. I fail to see why people find this so entertaining.
  • Uhm. I'm sorry, but I think your childhood memories must be a bit broken already if it only takes a twisted fan site to shatter them. Get a grip and hit the back arrow if you stumble upon something on the 'net that offends you. Everything out there offends somebody on the 'net.

  • Wah wah wah, whats the point? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Edgewize ( 262271 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:56PM (#5869258)
    Oh no, you were exposed to someone else's thoughts and you didn't like them. Wah.

    Seriously, I understand where people are coming from on this - I, too, have a special place in my heart for the stories I read/watched as a young child - but what would you prefer? Censorship? There's not really a middle ground. You don't like it, don't look at it. Sorry if you got offended but that's your problem.

    Now then, this site ... Is this even about "broken memories" or "raped childhoods"? No. This is just a set of links to every dirty cartoon or story ever drawn. It's more like "cartoon porn paradise". So, nice try on the part of a bleeding heart /. editor to encourage censorship, but this story shouldn't have been approved. And nice job by the submittor to get a cartoon porn site on the front page.
    • Despite the best efforts of Corporate America, this kind of thing will always be. Once you publish something, the public owns it. Common people will do common things with your characters such as make them urinate. Of course, once the character is urinating it's not yours anymore is it? Cease and dissist letters will never stem the "abuse", though they will eliminate constructive uses. Before and after the internet, there are bathroom walls, tatoos and pamplets.

  • Anticipation (Score:4, Funny)

    by Neillparatzo ( 530968 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:57PM (#5869265)
    While I'm waiting for this to load, I think I'll create Broken Links, a website devoted to all the websites destroyed by slashdotting.

  • Different perspective... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by TheOrquithVagrant ( 582340 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @12:57PM (#5869268)
    My god... where do all these people who actually WERE "innocent" as children come from? Personally, I remember my wild childhood imagination thinking up scenes just as dirty as anything on the Evil Internet with my favorite comic book characters back when I was just 7-8 or so, and most of my friends back then were just as dirty-minded little bastards. Of course, sex and superheroes were both about equally "unreal" to us... Perhaps that's an excuse. :)

    • Re:Different perspective... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by panda ( 10044 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @01:19PM (#5869370) Homepage Journal
      I hate "Me, too" posts, but this time I have to, because I don't have any mod points.

      I'd really like to know where this myth of childhood innocence comes from. None of my friends or acquaintances from school were all that innocent, and I'm talking 6 - 12 years old, not teenagers.

      Honestly, I think humans, like any animal, are born "knowing" about sex and those things. It's in the genes, and you don't need to "learn" it from adults or pornography. I mean, how could something so basic to the survival of the species not be instinctual?

      Anyway, I remember all the "games" and stuff that we used to play as kids. Heh, I even remember buying a Barbie doll so my G.I. Joe (the full-sized one, not the 2-inch crap they sell today) could have someone to fuck. (No, I don't believe in euphemism or misspelling "dirty words." Life is a cess pool, deal with it. I don't believe in "dirty words" for that matter.)

      Yeah, we used to write bawdy tales of the exploits of our favorite cartoon and comic book characters, some with illustrations.

      I just wanna know what planet all these "innocent" kids come from.
      • i'll agree with that [slashdot.org]. the only people who desire that kind of censorship are those who grew up at least as sheltered as their own children. learning about sex in middle school is probably the worst time to learn about it, as you're more tempted to try out your new knowledge than you would be when you're age 6-12 or 17-21. The former has alot of time to better understand sex before they're even capable of having it, while the latter ends up fearing sex until they learn that everyone else considers it commonp
  • There will still be childhood memories, they will just be different then the previous generation of children. I don't think this is necessary bad as everything changes.

    Where do you want to calculate [webcalc.net] today?

  • If there is ever a comic to show up on the "incorruptibles list", you can expect that within the hour, someone will have seen it + drawn a crude, possibly obscene cartoon to take that comic right back off of the list.
  • If Barbie girl was one of your childhood favorites (which I doubt :-) but even if it wasn't, you are likely to enjoy this [funpic.hu] parody.
  • Instead of advertising or search engines to drive traffic to a site that has absolutely no content, let's scam slashdot into posting it as an article. Did the poster actually check out the site to see that there wasn't anything there?
  • Doesn't look like anyone's writing any Amos 'n' Andy slash fanfic.

    Yet.

    k.
  • This Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles clip [harvard.edu] has to be the funniest movie clip I've ever seen in my life!!!

  • Childhood memories intact! (Score:4, Insightful)

    by BobWeiner ( 83404 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @01:08PM (#5869320) Homepage Journal
    I wouldn't go so far as to say my childhood memories have been ruined by what I've seen on the Internet. Rather, it's been a great source for me to meet other fans of television shows, cartoons, and movies that I've been a fan of. There will always be the fringe element websites that spoofs or otherwise shatters the 'innocence' we had as kids watching these shows -- but why worry about it?

    What I don't appreciate, however, is the fact that cartoons I used to view on TV have been severely edited to cut out "objectionable" bits. I guess that's what pisses me off the most. And to make matters worse, is the other crap on TV that's 10 times worse in terms of profanity and violence. As if kids aren't already exposed to this stuff.

    Hypocracy lives!

    Free Bob! [pcweenies.com]
  • ..if anything seeing the x-men gang bang storm was a major turn on.

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @01:13PM (#5869349)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • Cartoon porn [sakura.ne.jp]

    Next week can someone please post a free porn site that deals with real people, with perhaps a few series from playboy, as I really don't get off on this cartoon crap, and the google api blocks porn!

  • Ruined via various outlets (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Flabby Boohoo ( 606425 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @01:14PM (#5869352) Journal
    Porn-a-tized comics/catoons have been longer than the web... how many faxes have I received over the years... each one degrading a little bit more as it gets passed along.

    BBS' were pretty good about warehousing that crap too.

    • Re:Ruined via various outlets (Score:5, Interesting)

      by MsGeek ( 162936 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @01:39PM (#5869476) Homepage Journal
      If you want to see tons of hentai sketches, go to an animation studio. Inevitably artists working on a show will draw some very nasty parody art based on what they are currently working on at the time. Probably a lot of what is now circulating on the Internet had its origins not with perverted fans, but with the sick and twisted artists who actually worked on the shows.

      If anyone finds the "Ren & Stimpy discover sex and/or drugs" sketches that were floating around Spumco during the production of the show in 1990-92, they will have their childhood memories of that show thoroughly and completely ruined. I have seen these sketches with my own eyes...I know.

  • My childhood memories... (Score:3, Funny)

    by haxor.dk ( 463614 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @01:16PM (#5869358) Homepage
    ...will mostly be marked by a bunch of assholes from Arstechnica's forums.

    For some reason, civlised debat is hard to come by on that particular website.

  • Even more wrong Cartoon Network & MGM Library (Score:5, Interesting)

    by adzoox ( 615327 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @01:20PM (#5869374) Journal
    I have noticed that in several of the MGM cartoons, particularly Tex Avery cartoons on the Cartoon Network and now distributed on video, that scenes where Spike or another "dog character" or the wolf have a bomb explode near their face; are editted. I have the original Screwball Classics on VHS and trust me 2 minutes are editted out of modern "re-airs" cartoons due to this.

    Only the ones that don't depict the "character" appearing like a "black sambo" have been left in. All explosions that result in a pig tail with bow dread loche look with big africanus nose and africanus lips have been removed due to political correctness.

    This is similar to the editting in my opinion that Steven Speilberg did by replacing guns with bats in the special edition of ET.

    The only thing I see wrong with what the article mentioned is that teens sometimes wear these things (porn Flintstones and such) on T Shirts. It's not the webmasters we should be after, it's Spencers and Gadzooks, and Hot Topic for promoting the bastardization of cartoon characters.

  • Poorly drawn cartoon pornography doesn't destroy happy childhood memories of cartoons. Watching those cartoons now destroys those memories.

    I remember those shows as being super cool. But whenever they get re-aired (say on Cartoon Network) I cannot even watch one episode all the way through. They are tedious and boring, the plots make no sense, the characters are depthless, the animation and the voice acting are crappy. There's no redeeming value to these shows.

    The fact that they allowed children of our generation to watch that drivel astounds me. And it makes me wonder at how naive and simple a child I was to think of that as entertainment.
    • You were a child. Being naive and simple comes with the package.

    • You're correct (Score:5, Interesting)

      by WankersRevenge ( 452399 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @03:13PM (#5869903)
      Growing up is the actual ruiner of cartoons. My roommate and I sat down and watched a marathon session of Robotech shows. At first it was nostalgic, then it was funny, and then . . . simply pathetic. We finished only five episodes and that was that. Childhood was great and all that, but some things are best left in the nursery.

      On an aside, my girlfriend's father is an animator (we live in LA). When he was younger he drew for Scooby Doo. I asked him about the whole Fred and Daphne always going off together. And he laughed. He said all the animators drew porno pictures of the Scooby cast getting on it with each other (including Scooby) and past it around the office. He told me most animators do that on all shows except sometimes the cartoons are screwing the producers and all other deadline driving folk.

  • i rather like this stuff (Score:3, Informative)

    by The_Rook ( 136658 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @01:26PM (#5869405)
    it's good to know that all my favorite cartoon characters actually have heartbeats after all.
  • and well, I'm sure a chunk of my adult life will be broken by it as well... but it was all by two simple words:

    College Tuition
  • Then remember how that part of your childhood died when you stumbled on that dirty piece of fanart based on it?

    Well, no. My sensibilities aren't that fragile. Why, did this happen to you?
  • Stumbling across some Transformers pr0n of Megatron giving Optimus Prime a BJ... No matter how many times I wash my brain...
  • Batman, the boy blunder and Little Old Lady From Pasadena. Jan and Dean Meet Batman.
    Heard that 15 years ago and still haven't forgotten it. And it is not a good thing since it really just enhanced the view I already had of Batman and most super-dude-comics. Never read them. :)
  • This is a small price to pay for freedom of speech.

  • Star Trek porn? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by identity0 ( 77976 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @02:39PM (#5869747) Journal
    I remember back in the mid-ninties or so, when the web was young and (relatively) innocent. I was surfing a bunch of Star Trek sites when I first came upon Star Trek porn. Now keep in mind that this was back before porn became a big business on the 'net. So these people(guys and gals) must have been really obsessed fans who took the time to take nude photos of themselves while 'cosplaying', and scanned and posted it on the internet back when that was a totally geek-only thing... I don't know whether to be amused or frightened by the geekyness of it all.

    At least there was no Wesley Crusher porn that I can recall... Hey CleverNickName, have you had problems with fan imposter porn being done of you or your charachter?

  • Bah (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Elpacoloco ( 69306 ) <elpacoloco&dslextreme,com> on Saturday May 03, 2003 @03:15PM (#5869915) Journal
    Rule of the internet #1:
    People on the internet are inevitably very very very very very wierd.

    Rule of the internet #2:
    Most of the people who spend a *lot* of time on the internet are sexually frustrated.

    Conclusion:
    These people are gonna make raunchy jokes about everything they get their hands on.

    I don't understand this "Broken Memories" approach. Getting your favorite cartoon spoofed causes you psychological damage? GET A GRIP, DUDE!
  • There was no DMCA, no PATRIOT act, no (affordable) VCRs. The MPAA didn't control congress, records were not only fairly decent, but they were also comparatively cheap, all was good.

    Except at the turn of the 70s/80s, with the first home computers. Loading. Very. Low. Resolution. Games. From. Analog. Tape. Cassettes. You thought CD loading times were bad? Try sitting around while "Loading..." is displayed on your TV for an hour.

    Oh, and if you've dealt with furries, you'll find much of your favorite funny an

  • Oh come ON. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by John Pfeiffer ( 454131 ) on Saturday May 03, 2003 @03:36PM (#5870014) Homepage
    GI Joe used to be so damn cool when I was a kid....so when I heard it was going to be on Cartoon Network I had to see it......first time it's on I'm like "wtf is this sh**??" And turned it right the hell off....

    The only thing that ruins our 'childhood memories' is knowing better now :P
  • Heh. I've got 3 or so seasons (accounting for 4 years of my childhood and about 10 more years as an adult) that were ruined by fandom.

    Strangely, the Internet [wilwheaton.net] was instrumental in restoring [wilwheaton.net] much of the joy that went with those years.

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